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FRANK B. GRANGR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIG-NOR TO HALL-BOBCI-.ERT DRESS FORM COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION 0F NEW JERSEY.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 5, 1917.

Application filed .Tune 8, 1914. Serial No. 843,657.

To @Z3 whom t may concern Be it known that I, FRANK B..GRANGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, county of New York, State of New' York, have invented an Improvement in Dress-Forms, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts. y

r`his invention relatesto adjustable dress forms and has for its object to provide' a novel construction by which the circumferential adjustment of the dress form cambe greatly facilitated. f Y

My invention is especially advantageous in securing an adjustment of the waist portion of a dress form, but it can be used in securing the circumferential adjustment of any other part of the dress form if desired. I have shown. my invention as applied to a sectional dress form, that is, one in which the body of the form is'` made of separate sections adjustably connected together and capable of adjustment relative to each other to change the size and proportions of the form. In applying my invention to thls type of dress form I provide a novel form-exi pending member which will preferably be situatedon the interior of the form, which is connected to the various sections of the form, and which tends automatically to force the various sections of the form out- Ywardly thereby to expand the form and increase the circumferential measure thereof,

' com 'ilish the entire oicration of ex andin r contracting the form circumfercntially.

In order to give an understanding of my invention I have illustrated herein a selected yembodiment thereof which Will now be described, after which the novel features will be point-ed out in the appended claim.

Referring to the drawings wherein I have shown a selected embodiment of the invention, Figure l is a front elevation of a dress form made in accordance with the invenl designates the body portion of a sectional dress form which may be divided 'into any suitable number of sections. In the illustration shown in the drawing this body v portion is divided vertically in a plurality of places, as indicated by the lines 2 and is -also divided horizontally at or above the 1 waist, as shown at 3, this being a more or less common way of dividing a dress form and resulting in the prvison of a plurality of hip sections 4 and the shoulder and neck sections 5. I have also shown each of the hip sections e as having hinged to the upper end thereof a waist section 6. The hinge connection between each Waist section 6 and the hip section 4L may be formed in any suitable way, as by means of a hinge 7.

It will be understood, of course, that the various shoulder and neck sections 5 are detachably connected to the waist sections 6, audrto each other, so that the Waist can be lengthened or shortened by adjusting the sections 5 relative to the sections G, and the waist of the form may be expanded or contracted circumferentially by adjusting the sections 6 and 4 relative t0 each other.

My invention relates to a novel means for securing the circumferential adjustment of the form, and I have illustrated it as applied to the waist portion of the form for expanding or contracting the latter, although it Would be possible to applly the same construction to other parts of thejy f rm where circumferential adjustment vis desired. In accordance with my invention I provide a novel form-expanding member situated within the form and acting on the various "sections thereof, which member tends normally to expand the sections outwardly, and the size of the form is controlled by a size-determining member which limits the expansive action of the form-cxpanding member. In the illustrated embodiment of my invention this form-expanding memberis shown as a sprin device .8 which is connected to each o the waist sections 6, the portion of this spring device between adjacent Waist sections tendse j ing normally to spread said weist sectionsn from each other with the result that the ultimate action of this spring device is to apply pressure to all of the waist sections tending to force them outwardly. This spring derice 8 is shown as a series of resilient strips 10 of spring metal, each having a general Ushape, and each secured at its ends to two of the form sections. The preferred construction is one in which the two ends ot' any spring section 10 are connected te two adjacent form sections. The connection between the spring'sections 10 and the form sections may be made in any suitable way. As. shown in the drawings the ends ot each spring; section are bent to form feet which are clamped to the form .sections by clamping bolts The normal tendency of this spring member S is to torce the form sections outwardly thereby to enlarge the -form circumferen tially as seen in dotted lines Fig. 2. This expansive movement of the spring 8 is controlled by a size-determining member 11 herein shown as a tape which encircles the lforln opposite the points where the spring acts on thi, sections (i. This tape may have any means for adjusting its length. As shown in the drawings it is provided at one end with a buckle l2 for this purpose. Preferably the tape will be graduated in inches so that the exact waist measure of the form can be read 'at any time.

' lVith thisconstruction it will be readily secu thatif it. is desired to adjust the waist ot theiform by increasing the circumference thereof the operator merely loosens the tape 1l' and sets the buckle at the desired measurement on the tape. As the tape. is loosened the spring member 8 automatically forces the waist sections 6 outwardly, the hinged construction 7 permitting this to be done without affecting the adjustment of any of theV other parts. Similarly, it' the waist measure of the form is to be reduced 1 in size the tape is merely taken up with the result that the waist sections are forced inwardly and the spring 8 compressed. It will be noted that the adjustment et the waist of the form is accomplished entirely from the outside and without loosening any clamping bolts or nuts. Moreover, the cena" struction of the spring device herein illustrated is exceedingly simple and cheap to manufacture, but at the same time it is eiective in operation.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:-

The ycombination with dress tormldi-` vided vertically ina plurality oi places and Aalso divided horizontally at the waist. thereby to present hip' sections below the waist sections above the horizontal division, of a FRANK GARCIA, DAVID Conn. 

